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I felt it was a good dive into "good" programs at a bit of higher level, rather than "here's how to do X". Quite a bit applies to Windows software and other software that never touches Unix as well.

Some bits are better than others, some bits haven't aged too well in the last 20 years, and it's a shame esr has since turned crazy. But I still feel the book holds up reasonably well.

"Bait and switch" certainly seems too strong of an accusation, especially for a book that's available for free.

I do agree that even pre-crazy esr was never on the level of Kernighan in any way.